Developing Courses in English for Specific Purposes

When I first started teaching English for Specific Purposes (ESP) about 15 years ago, I was not aware of the best ways to organize my classes. Fortunately, in those days, there were already some good Business English coursebooks whose accompanying teacher’s manuals helped with a number of things like business culture, terminology, and so on. However, I always missed some additional things such as guidelines to orientate my classes, ideas to collect appropriate materials, hints on how to search for relevant lexis, etc. Developing Courses in English for Specific Purposes is a welcome volume. In this sense, readers will find both theoretical and practical ideas to orientate their classes. As the author states: It aims to make the topic of ESP course development … accessible … to … teachers and prospective teachers, and to show how ideas about how course development in the literature can be related to practice. (p. x)